[ckan-discuss] Shall we create a project advisory group for CKAN?

Wed Mar 2 12:29:51 GMT 2011

On 2 March 2011 11:42, Jo Walsh <jo.walsh at ed.ac.uk> wrote:
> On 28/02/11 14:10, Jonathan Gray wrote:
>>
>> A while ago I suggested that we create a Project Advisory Group for
>> the CKAN [1]. Do people still think we should do this? ;-)
>>
>> [1] http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/ckan-discuss/2010-May/000262.html
>
> While you are thinking about this sort of thing - how do people feel about a
> Project Steering Committee, or moral equivalent, for CKAN?

Very much so. Just earlier in the thread I said:

> Yes, a big +1. This could complement the Project Steering Committee
(which would be more about direct oversight, guidance and representing
user community).

Referring to the discussion of the PSC last week [1]:

<http://wiki.ckan.net/Project_Steering_Committee>

[1]: <http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/ckan-discuss/2011-February/000953.html>

> "The PSC is responsible for setting the overal direction of the project and
> its releases, determining what features go in, managing the documentation,
> assigning and revoking commit rights, etc."

Sounds good, we could perhaps merge this with current purpose of PSC
as set out on the wiki page.

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Rufus